Screening for pre-eclampsia by using changes in uterine artery Doppler indices with advancing gestation

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 180-184

  Napolitano, Raffaele ^a   Melchiorre, Karen ^a   Arcangeli, Tiziana ^a   Dias, Tiran ^a   Bhide, Amar ^a   Thilaganathan, Basky ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY;

ADULT; BLOOD CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, FIRST; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PULSATILE FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS;

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EID: 84858319225     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.2930     Document Type: Article

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